Corner Caps for Chief Productions Pool Table 55744

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Find a pool table "installer" and/or pool table service technician whose been in business a while. These guys are all parts scavengers and save anything they may need down the road. You may not find an exact replacement - but might get close. If you get close - and the manufacturer is still in biz - replacement caps may be available?

Then too, a local auto-body shop or sheet metal fabricator (HVAC guy) might look at what's left of the corner cap and be able to make 6 identical that would work. Remember, the cap is purely cosmetic. The leather/plastic pocket acts like a liner for the cap - in most cases...

Thanks Zeke, emailed a local repairman to see what he can do. I'm not sure how well sheet metal would work with 2 curves (corner curve and radius curve). I'm sure you could form it with a series of stamping dies, but to work that by hand would be pretty tough. I've been tossing around the idea of making some fiberglass replacements, but after 2hr of researching the process and supplies needed, plus the learning curve, I think I'd rather pay someone who know how to glass to do it. :/ Wondering if anyone on this forum would like to try their hand at it.. ? :D

Oh yeah... I googled the heck out of it... corner caps, corner pieces, chrome caps, pool table parts and a myriad of variations....Nothing that has the width where it supports the back of the corner pocket and a larger radius where the cap lays on top of the side rail.

Update on my solution for the missing/broken corner caps. Never heard back from the local pool table repairman I email....soooo

This is the corner with the pocket liner removed...

I took a file folder, a scale, and scissors and made a pattern to fill the corner, so the 'end result' would look something like this..

Unfortunately, every corner was slightly different, so I ended up making a pattern for each corner.

Then I went to my fathers, got some pieces of cherry and ash, laminated them together..

Laid out my patterns...

...and started cutting

Then tonight I took my belt sander, clamped it to a work table, and stated sanding the blocks to fit...

None of the table rails are cut straight or plumb (how these were cut this crooked I'll never know.) So between sanding the blocks and filing the ends of the rails...about 3hrs later, and I have this...

Not the most precision fitting I've done....but it beats the ugly hole that was there before :D

I marked the edge radius on each end, so now it's back to the shop to finish these up, then stain and mount....I wonder what the largest corner radius router bit my father has :D
....updates when they happen :D

Pretty close to wrapping this project up! :D One more coat of stain/sealer, secure the new corners in place. Then trim and mount the pocket liners. Here's one that I just set the pieces in place. Much better than the previous gaping-hole version. LOL

Ever have one of those "humph" moments... when you look at a repair you've done, only to realize it makes other questionable areas around the repair look like total garbage? Had one of those after repositioning the table...Corners look great, but it made the tattered edges of the sides stand out even more..

So I got some trim, stained it to match the corners and added that today.....I like how it ties the corners in to the rest of the table now :D

Right now they are held in with 2" wood screws. Anybody driving in corner shots THAT hard will be gently escorted out of the game room...lol :D There's a little bit of a void between the wood and the pocket liner that will hopefully act as a cushion to take some of the momentum off the ball....at least enough to keep from breaking the cap (fingers crossed..)